Anyone checking twitter.com this morning was probably greeted with a mess of JavaScript, mouseover effects, and spam retweets, after a flaw in the site’s handling of hyperlinks allowed attackers to ...

Twitter has patched a hack which directed users to third-party sites, including adult websites. The company's status feed identified the hack as a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, and said Twitter ...

The New York Times is estimated to have spent $40 million to $50 million to construct an elaborate new paywall that will force some users of the site to pay a monthly fee to read paper content. But ...

Criminals are once again using Twitter to spread malware, this time leveraging a Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) attack to infect PCs, gain access to Twitter accounts, and send malicious tweets. Since the ...

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Update: Twitter says it has fixed a dangerous flaw that turned the Twitter Website into minefield Tuesday of potentially dangerous links. The company tweeted early Tuesday “The XSS attack should now ...

Shock, horror and redaction-themed confusion on Twitter this morning, as an apparent javascript hole has seen the short-messaging service overrun by black boxes which can spawn pop-up messages and ...

Earlier I posted that Google Analytics and other JavaScript-based tracking tools might be undercounting visits from Twitter. I’ve done some more digging, which supports the case. In my test, Twitter ...